Quoting Neurotica 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://bsky.app/profile/schwarzgerat.bsky.social/post/3mhqu5dogos2v"><p>slop is something that takes more human effort to cons [...]
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datasette-files 0.1a2 🔗
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/datasette/datasette-files/releases/tag/0.1a2">datasette-files 0.1a2</a></p> <p>The m [...]
Quoting David Abram 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://www.davidabram.dev/musings/the-machine-didnt-take-your-craft/"><p>I have been doing this for years, and the hardest par [...]
Beats now have notes 🔗
<p>Last month I <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/20/beats/">added a feature I call beats</a> to this blog, pulling in some of my other [...]
Starlette 1.0 skill 🔗
<p><strong>Research:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/research/tree/main/starlette-1-skill#readme">Starlette 1.0 skill</a></p> <p> [...]
Experimenting with Starlette 1.0 with Claude skills 🔗
<p><a href="https://marcelotryle.com/blog/2026/03/22/starlette-10-is-here/">Starlette 1.0 is out</a>! This is a really big deal. I think Starlett [...]
PCGamer Article Performance Audit 🔗
<p><strong>Research:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/research/tree/main/pcgamer-audit#readme">PCGamer Article Performance Audit</a></ [...]
JavaScript Sandboxing Research 🔗
<p><strong>Research:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/research/tree/main/javascript-sandboxing-research#readme">JavaScript Sandboxing [...]
DNS Lookup 🔗
<p><strong>Tool:</strong> <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/dns">DNS Lookup</a></p> <p>TIL that Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS service (and [...]
Merge State Visualizer 🔗
<p><strong>Tool:</strong> <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/manyana">Merge State Visualizer</a></p> <p>Bram Cohen wrote about his <a h [...]
Profiling Hacker News users based on their comments 🔗
<p>Here's a mildly dystopian prompt I've been experimenting with recently: "Profile this user", accompanied by a copy of their last 1,000 comment [...]
Using Git with coding agents 🔗
<p><em><a href="https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/">Agentic Engineering Patterns</a> ></em></p> <p>Git is a ke [...]
Turbo Pascal 3.02A, deconstructed 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/turbo-pascal-deconstructed">Turbo Pascal 3.02A, deconstructed</a></strong></p> In <a href="h [...]
Quoting Kimi.ai @Kimi_Moonshot 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://twitter.com/Kimi_Moonshot/status/2035074972943831491"><p>Congrats to the <a href="https://x.com/cursor_ai">@cursor_ai</ [...]
SQLite Tags Benchmark: Comparing 5 Tagging Strategies 🔗
<p><strong>Research:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/research/tree/main/sqlite-tags-benchmark#readme">SQLite Tags Benchmark: Comparin [...]
Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty 🔗
<p>The big news this morning: <a href="https://astral.sh/blog/openai">Astral to join OpenAI</a> (on the Astral blog) and <a href="https://openai. [...]
Autoresearching Apple's "LLM in a Flash" to run Qwen 397B locally 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://twitter.com/danveloper/status/2034353876753592372">Autoresearching Apple's "LLM in a Flash" to run Qw [...]
datasette 1.0a26 🔗
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/datasette/releases/tag/1.0a26">datasette 1.0a26</a></p> <p>Datasette now has [...]
Snowflake Cortex AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/snowflake-ai-escapes-sandbox-and-executes-malware">Snowflake Cortex AI Escapes Sandbox [...]
Quoting Ken Jin 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://fidget-spinner.github.io/posts/jit-on-track.html"><p>Great news—we’ve hit our (very modest) performance goals for the C [...]
GPT-5.4 mini and GPT-5.4 nano, which can describe 76,000 photos for $52 🔗
<p>OpenAI today: <a href="https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-4-mini-and-nano/">Introducing GPT‑5.4 mini and nano</a>. These models join G [...]
llm 0.29 🔗
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm/releases/tag/0.29">llm 0.29</a></p> <p>Adds support for OpenAI's new mode [...]
Quoting Tim Schilling 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://www.better-simple.com/django/2026/03/16/give-django-your-time-and-money/"><p>If you do not understand the ticket, if yo [...]
Subagents 🔗
<p><em><a href="https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/">Agentic Engineering Patterns</a> ></em></p> <p>LLMs are re [...]
Introducing Mistral Small 4 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-small-4">Introducing Mistral Small 4</a></strong></p> Big new release from Mistral today (de [...]
Use subagents and custom agents in Codex 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://developers.openai.com/codex/subagents">Use subagents and custom agents in Codex</a></strong></p> Subagents were anno [...]
Quoting A member of Anthropic’s alignment-science team 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/the-pentagon-went-to-war-with-anthropic-whats-really-at-stake?_sp=9a6e0ff7-2bf [...]
Quoting Guilherme Rambo 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/apple_enclaves_neo_camera_indicator"><p>Tidbit: the software-based camera indicator light in [...]
Coding agents for data analysis 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://simonw.github.io/nicar-2026-coding-agents/">Coding agents for data analysis</a></strong></p> Here's the handout I pr [...]
How coding agents work 🔗
<p><em><a href="https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/">Agentic Engineering Patterns</a> ></em></p> <p>As with any [...]